I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.